Current events: 2023-03-09

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia launches cruise missiles at targets across Ukraine. Buildings and critical infrastructure are hit in different areas, and at least five civilians are killed in Lviv Oblast when a missile destroys their home, according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen are killed by Israeli special units during a shootout in Jenin, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)(The Times of Israel)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • Three people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzamil, the Taliban-appointed governor of Balkh Province, are killed by an explosion at his office. (AFP via Barron's)

Business and economy

• The Belgian government announces a ban on gambling advertising across television, radio, cinemas, magazines, newspapers, social media, and in public spaces from July 1, citing the rise in gambling addiction. From 2028, gambling companies will also no longer be able to sponsor professional sports clubs. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed and at least 25 others are injured after a train collides with a public bus in Lagos, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• The wreckage of a Cessna 206 that has been reported missing since January 24 in Isabela, Philippines, is found in Divilacan, with all six people aboard confirmed dead. Retrieval operations are ongoing. (Manila Bulletin)
• Three people are killed after a mine tunnel collapses in Catalonia, Spain. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2023 Hamburg shooting
  • Six people are killed and several more injured during a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. (DW)
• 2023 Georgian protests
  • Georgia's ruling party announces it will withdraw a controversial bill concerning foreign agents which prompted days of protests across the country. (MSN)
• LGBT rights in Uganda
  • The parliament of Uganda begins debate on a proposed bill that would criminalize people identifying as part of the LGBTQ community with up to 10 years in prison. The bill would also criminalize the "promotion" of homosexuality and "abetting" or "conspiring" to engage in same-sex relations. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in Belarus
  • President Alexander Lukashenko signs a bill into law which allows the use of the death penalty on officials and military servicemen convicted of high treason. (CNA)

Politics and elections

• The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the move. (Reuters)

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